Tucked between a video store and a Westwood parking lot, UCLA physicists are assembling the parts to a machine that may help explain why your pizza doesn’t fall through the table when you set it down to read this newspaper. The machine, called the Compact Muon Solenoid, will be fully assembled in spring of 2007 […]
Category Archives: Science & Health
Scientists at UCLA create stronger nano-sized fiber
Researchers at UCLA have taken an old method from a common spider and spun it into a new idea for creating stronger materials. The idea was to copy the approach spiders use in spinning a web and to apply this to a method for creating stronger nano-sized fiber materials, according to Thomas Hahn, mechanical and […]
Locals, researchers partner up to protect reefs
The health of several coral reefs around the world has improved over the past few years, but overfishing still poses a major threat to reefs, according to a recently released study by the Reef Check program at UCLA. Reef Check, a non-profit organization started in 1996 by UCLA visiting professor Greg Hodgson, at the Institute […]
Campus shuttles move forward with new tracking system
The UCLA Campus Express Shuttle Service has partnered with researchers at the university’s computer science department to develop and implement a new high-tech tracking system for campus shuttle buses. The tracking system was installed on all 17 campus shuttle buses, which serve 6,000 riders daily during the regular school year. Shuttle bus managers used to […]
Briefs
One twin has surgery; both in stable condition at UCLA Both Maria Teresa and Maria de Jesus Quiej Alvarez remain in serious condition with stable vital signs in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at UCLA’s Mattel Children’s Hospital. Maria Teresa Quiej Alvarez was recovering from a third surgery to remove blood accumulated on her brain. […]
Separated twins in better condition, more alert
Formerly conjoined twins Maria Teresa and Maria de Jesus Quiej Alvarez remain in serious condition, an upgrade from critical condition they were in after the separation surgery. Despite a three-hour surgical procedure on Friday, Aug. 16, just a day after the upgrade, Maria Teresa’s vital signs are stable as she recovers in the Pediatric Intensive […]
Science Brief
UCLA recently negotiated a new agreement with Network Associates, Inc., to continue the availability of McAfee antivirus software free of charge to UCLA departments, faculty and students. The agreement allows campus departments access to a large selection of McAfee products for UCLA-owned systems. For personal computers owned by UCLA students, faculty and staff ““ whether […]